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The Galveston Railroad (reporting mark GVSR) is a Class III terminal switching railroad headquartered in Galveston, Texas. It primarily serves the transportation of cargo to and from the Port of Galveston. [1] GVSR operates 32 miles (51 km) of yard track at Galveston, over a 50-acre (200,000 m 2) facility.
The railway remained mostly under control of the Confederate States of America (CSA) during the American Civil War. [1] More recently, most of original Galveston, Houston and Henderson right-of-way running between the Island and Bayou cities has been a property of the Union Pacific Railroad known as the Galveston Subdivision. This legacy rail ...
The Galveston Railroad Museum is a railroad museum housed in the former Santa Fe Railroad station, at 25th and Strand in Galveston, Texas. The Museum is owned and operated by the Center for Transportation and Commerce, a non-profit organization. [2] The museum was established with funds from Galveston businesswoman and philanthropist Mary Moody ...
Galveston and Red River Railway: SP: 1848 1856 Houston and Texas Central Railway: Galveston, Sabine and St. Louis Railway: ATSF: 1882 1888 Texas, Sabine Valley and Northwestern Railway: Galveston Terminal Railway: CB&Q/ RI: 1905 1985 Burlington Northern Railroad: Galveston and Western Railway: ATSF: 1887 1923 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway ...
The name traces its origins to the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, a Southern Pacific Railroad subsidiary which was known as the Sunset Route as early as 1874. [citation needed] The line was built by several different companies and largely consolidated under Southern Pacific, with completion at the Colorado River in 1883. [3]
Constructed by the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad Company (of 1853)— Virginia Point to Houston, Tex., 1853-1858 41.70 End of bridge on Galveston Island to Galveston, Tex., 1858 4.30 Constructed by the city of Galveston, Bridge, Virginia Point to Galveston Island, July, 1868 2.50 Constructed by the Galveston and Houston Junction ...